Title :
Mean-field performance analysis of a hazard detection Wireless Sensor network
Author :
Guenther, Marcel C. ; Bradley, Jeremy T.
Author_Institution :
Imperial Coll. London, London, UK
Abstract :
Wireless Sensor networks (WSNs) are often deployed to monitor emergencies such as forest fires or land-slides. Naturally, such events can impact network performance by destroying sensors or otherwise limiting their transmission capabilities. Fail-safe WSN routing protocols can mitigate the effect by closing routing holes promptly. Our work presents a model of pheromone based, fail-safe WSN routing. In particular we use higher-order moment mean-field techniques to study network behaviour during topology changes.
Keywords :
computerised monitoring; emergency services; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication network topology; wireless sensor networks; destroying sensors; emergencies monitor; fail-safe WSN routing protocols; hazard detection wireless sensor network; higher-order moment mean-field techniques; mean-field performance analysis; network behaviour; network performance; pheromone-based fail-safe WSN routing; routing holes; transmission capabilities; Analytical models;
Conference_Titel :
Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (VALUETOOLS), 2012 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cargese
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4887-4
